A manufacturer = supplier which produces products, on the product you can define suppliers. A product has a brandname field.
so what is missing? Regards, Hans -- Ofbiz on twitter: http://twitter.com/apache_ofbiz Myself on twitter: http://twitter.com/hansbak Antwebsystems.com: Quality services for competitive rates. On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:13 +0530, Shailen wrote: > Thanks Abhishake for your inputs. but IMO brand and categories are two > different things as a brand can only be associated with only one > manufacturer while a category can be associated with multiple manufacturers. > So how can I restrict this association of multiple manufacturers? > > Regards, > Shailen ([email protected]) > +91-9216020360 > Mohali, Chandigarh - 160062 > > > On Thursday 16 December 2010 05:26 PM, Abhishake Agarwal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > you can create a party with role manufacturer. Then you can add party in > > category which can act as a brand. > > > > Regards, > > Abhishake > > > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Shailen<[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a requirement where I need to create manufacturers which I can > >> insert as parties. Manufacturers can have zero or more brands. Each brand > >> can have zero or more products. > >> > >> - Is brands supported in ofbiz ? I have checked the data model but not > >> able to find. > >> - If not what would be the best way to achieve this ? > >> > >> IMO I should extend ofbiz data model and create a new brand table and > >> manufacturer-brand table. > >> Brand table would have all the brands and manufacturer-brand table would > >> have the manufacturer brand association. > >> Also extend the product table and include brandId as a drop-down. Product > >> has OEM Party ID(which I think is nothing but manufacturer) and based on > >> the > >> OEM Party Id the brandId can be populated. > >> > >> Any design pointers are much welcomed. > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Shailen ([email protected]) > >> +91-9216020360 > >> Mohali, Chandigarh - 160062 > >> > >>
